Jim Keys, Author at The History Herald

Edward The Confessor

Edward was born in 1003AD in Islip, Oxfordshire, the son of Ethelred and Emma of Normandy. He was just ten

History has been less than kind to Richard who had for many years been a loyal supporter of his brother

Every schoolboy knows of Harold’s defeat at Hastings. How different that outcome might have been had Harold not been distracted

The Italians thought that their mighty battle fleet, the Regia Marina, would be safe in Taranto harbour, but 20 obsolescent

James Butler Hickok, later known as “Wild Bill”, was born in Homer Illinois on May 27th 1837. He is one

With Henry VIII away fighting in France, the Scottish King James resolved to invade England. The decision was to cost

On September 17th 1851, a treaty was signed at Fort Laramie between the United States government and the Indian nations

By 1866, the western expansion of American settlers had reached Montana and Wyoming, the traditional hunting grounds of the Lakota

Edward III wanted the French throne and was willing to fight to get it. Starting with the naval battle of

In 1877, a prospector named Edward Schieffelin was digging for silver at Goose Flats, a desert area some 12 miles